That's right diodes, you choose to be who you want to be. Don't let that label define you, you too can be an LED if you work hard enough.

Light Emitting Diodes... that were not supposed to.

In the words of PhotonicInduction "I popped iiiiiiit!"

As a Radio Communications Electronic Technician, I See Burnt Zener Diodes Popped Relay coil "Spike" Diodes, And Smoked Polarity Reversal Protection Diodes Regularly...Just The Other Day, I Placed A High Current Twin Transformer Unregulated Power Supply For An Amplifier Under Load And Witnessed BOTH KBPC 50 Amp Bridge Rectifiers BURST INTO FLAMES...I SMILED...Poor Engineering Equals Job Security For Me, Your Friendly CB SUPERTECH :-)

Poor little diodes had a break-down.

Great tutorial on turning bug standart diodes into light emitting diodes :D

Been wanting to make a descent Blender animation of overloaded components. This will make good reference.

Nice video, well done, thank you for sharing it with us :)

Clarence Zener is up there pulling his hair out because of this video.

Isn't it molten glass instad of melted?

Did you try testing if the one that melted the lead still works or is it just shorted out ?

I like the smoke vids, but I would also like some conditions listed in the description; for example; 12VAC @ 1.5A.

I love your all videos, especially about buck, boost, test integrity signal, I like when you explain some physical phenomenon such as interference, can you do some other videos please about electronics

Now, THAT'S what I call a LIGHT EMITTING diode!

how they fit this tiny diode into that glass ?

so this is what light emitting diode is

That was awesome!

Too funny. I love videos like this (for the same reasons why I used to make my own rocket fuels and pyrotechnics)!

any diode is light emitting if you try hard enough

And here we have our rectifier...whup, mevermind.

so im curius if i coold it down enugh cant i put 1000a tgrhu a 1a diode ?

Any diode can emit light at least once!

interesting.. it must have altered the silicon. normally the semiconductor would simple melt and pop, but the entire diode (also silicon) heated up and the lead melted instead.

I remember the first time I "popped" a resistor, scared the hell outta me

R.I.P diodes :(

Ah...memories. I've seen a lot of magic blue smoke in my time. I'm not saying whose fault it was...there is no blame here. (whistles)

What power supply are you using

You can make mini soldering iron from shottky diode :)

Is that the power supply fan we're hearing?

I can smell them from here LOL

Silicon diodes and sense diodes used as LED light emitting diodes. Seems legit. They all turned into DED dark emitting diode…

I used to be able to short these out with 6 AA batteries, the Diodes would get so hot they would melt the solder on them

I did that more than a few times when I was a kid because I didn't know dick about electronics.

Lol I read it Diode Smelting..

What kind of current was that? I can't imagine they're rated for more than a few amps, but I can't imagine you'd melt the glass on that schottky :P

Melted glass ≈ smält glass = melted ice cream (in Swedish)

poor "little" power supply trying to give all these amps.. without burning itself..

I alr did this too lol, ita funny

aquacleanwater

That's hot

Very obvious poor current sharing between those two parallel diodes. The most important thing is they both made smoke though. ")

You let all their smoke escape. Components are useless without their smoke.

woooooooooooooooo

Neet

I think my regulator is fucked

Try* putting them across 240v ac 😂 *don't try this at home kids